"there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?"

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Source : Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.66, Penguin

Kurt Vonnegut

#Cutting Quotes #Age Quotes #Superstitions Quotes

“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“We have been so impressed with the Pocket Radar that it has become the only radar gun we use for coaching and scouting.”
“If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.”

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“Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.”
“My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.”
“A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.”
“Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.”
“But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.”

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